President's project advisory committee (PPAC)

The PPAC provides external advice on FRIB activities to the MSU President and Provost. More specifically, the committee provides continuity of oversight of the FRIB project on behalf of the MSU President and Provost until the completion of the project, and reviews progress of FRIB project, especially on matters related to construction planning, project management, technical performance, user issues, and safety. The PPAC will meet semi-annually. PPAC members are:

Ernest Moniz, Chair

• Department of Energy, Under Secretary, 1997-2001
• Associate Director for Science, Office of Science and Technology Policy, The Executive Office of the President of the United States, 1995-1997
• Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Physics and Engineering Systems, MIT
• Director of the Laboratory for Energy and the Environment, MIT

James Decker

• Principal Deputy Director, DOE Office of Science (Retired)

James Duderstadt

• President Emeritus and University Professor of Science and Engineering, University of Michigan

Bill Madia

• Vice President for the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center; former Director of ORNL and PNNL

Edward Moses

• Principal Associate Director for the NIF and Photon Science Directorate, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Ben Maibach III

• Chairman and CEO, Barton Malow Company

David Pethick

• President, Energy & Environment Business Unit, Washington Group International